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Till the coast is clear?

The student is handed a $121 fine for disobeying — one of 24 students caught and ticketed in one day this week.

- How to cross the street, InfoTel.ca, November 15, 2013.

2. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, Kansas was known for its open expanse of land, cattle trade and horse thievery. “Bullets, Bridles and Badges: Horse Thieves and the Societies that Pursued Them” examines the state’s seamier legacy – the theft of horses and the vigilante groups that surrounded them. The book’s author, John Burchill, a professor of history at Kansas Wesleyan University, will speak at Watermark Books and Cafe.

Soon to be released in paperback, the book digs into the underbelly of Kansas life through letters, pictures, ledgers, reports and oral accounts. Through painstaking research, Burchill uncovered never-before published information on this sometimes-brutal enterprise.

“This is the first attempt to do a comprehensive book on horse thieves,” Burchill said.

The horse was integral to the livelihood of pioneers.

“Horses for the pioneers were their tractor, equivalent to their car,” Burchill said.

Because horses were essential commodities to farmers and ranchers, they became valuable to thieves, and a black market developed. Thieves would steal the animals and hang out in the woods until the coast was clear. They would also transport horses across state borders in the hopes of avoiding arrest.